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RFC 1813 - 3.3.14 Procedure 14: RENAME - Rename a File or Directory

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### 3.3.14 Procedure 14: RENAME - Rename a File or Directory

SYNOPSIS

            RENAME3res NFSPROC3_RENAME(RENAME3args) = 14;

            struct RENAME3args {
                 diropargs3   from;
                 diropargs3   to;
            };

            struct RENAME3resok {
                 wcc_data     fromdir_wcc;
                 wcc_data     todir_wcc;
            };

            struct RENAME3resfail {
                 wcc_data     fromdir_wcc;
                 wcc_data     todir_wcc;
            };

            union RENAME3res switch (nfsstat3 status) {
            case NFS3_OK:
                 RENAME3resok   resok;
            default:
                 RENAME3resfail resfail;
            };

DESCRIPTION

  Procedure RENAME renames the file identified by from.name in the directory, from.dir, to to.name in the di- rectory, to.dir. The operation is required to be atomic to the client. To.dir and from.dir must reside on the same file system and server. On entry, the arguments in RENAME3args are:

  from

    A diropargs3 structure identifying the source (the file system object to be re-named):

    from.dir

      The file handle for the directory from which the entry is to be renamed.

    from.name

      The name of the entry that identifies the object to be renamed. Refer to General comments on filenames on page 30.

  to

    A diropargs3 structure identifying the target (the new name of the object):

    to.dir

      The file handle for the directory to which the object is to be renamed.

    to.name

      The new name for the object. Refer to General comments on filenames on page 30.

  If the directory, to.dir, already contains an entry with the name, to.name, the source object must be compatible with the target: either both are non-directories or both are directories and the target must be empty. If compatible, the existing target is removed before the rename occurs. If they are not compatible or if the target is a directory but not empty, the server should return the error, NFS3ERR_EXIST.

  On successful return, RENAME3res.status is NFS3_OK and RENAME3res.resok contains:

  fromdir_wcc

    Weak cache consistency data for the directory, from.dir.

  todir_wcc

    Weak cache consistency data for the directory, to.dir.

  Otherwise, RENAME3res.status contains the error on failure and RENAME3res.resfail contains the following:

  fromdir_wcc

    Weak cache consistency data for the directory, from.dir.

  todir_wcc

    Weak cache consistency data for the directory, to.dir.

  IMPLEMENTATION The RENAME operation must be atomic to the client. The message "to.dir and from.dir must reside on the same file system on the server, [or the operation will fail]" means that the fsid fields in the attributes for the directories are the same. If they reside on different file systems, the error, NFS3ERR_XDEV, is returned. Even though the operation is atomic, the status, NFS3ERR_MLINK, may be returned if the server used a "unlink/link/unlink" sequence internally.

  A file handle may or may not become stale on a rename. However, server implementors are strongly encouraged to attempt to keep file handles from becoming stale in this fashion.

  On some servers, the filenames, "." and "..", are illegal as either from.name or to.name. In addition, neither from.name nor to.name can be an alias for from.dir. These servers will return the error, NFS3ERR_INVAL, in these cases.

  If from and to both refer to the same file (they might be hard links of each other), then RENAME should perform no action and return NFS3_OK.

  Refer to General comments on filenames on page 30.

ERRORS

  NFS3ERR_NOENT NFS3ERR_IO NFS3ERR_ACCES NFS3ERR_EXIST NFS3ERR_XDEV NFS3ERR_NOTDIR NFS3ERR_ISDIR NFS3ERR_INVAL NFS3ERR_NOSPC NFS3ERR_ROFS NFS3ERR_MLINK NFS3ERR_NAMETOOLONG NFS3ERR_NOTEMPTY NFS3ERR_DQUOT NFS3ERR_STALE NFS3ERR_BADHANDLE NFS3ERR_NOTSUPP NFS3ERR_SERVERFAULT

SEE ALSO

REMOVE and LINK.

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RFC 1813 - 3.3.14 Procedure 14: RENAME - Rename a File or Directory